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Monday, 19 November 2012

Crowdfunding stage for Chris Robers and his team developing upcoming hugely ambitious space sim Star Citizen has ended with huge success. The project has raised over $6,2million dollars of crowdfunding money with all donation channels combined that they used - kickstarter.com and their own RSI website donations.

This means that Star Citizen steals the crown from Project Eternity being most funded computer game ever through crowdfunding method. Project Eternity still holds the crown for being most funded computer game ever this far on kickstarter.com holding the first place with $3,986,292 dollars in comparison with Star Citizen's kickstarter part of the funding $2,134,374 dollars.

Raising over $6,2 million for Star Citizen funding budget means, along great success, that Chris Roberts' ambitious Wing Commander/Privateer-style hybrid space sim achieves few more big "stretch goals" set in the funding making it even bigger than before. In the end few more things added to the final product will be: